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Mammograms and breast self-exams are one of the best ways to identify breast cancer early on, right? Not quite. Although experts used to recommend women do monthly self-breast exams religiously and have regular mammograms, conventional wisdom has changed a bit and we now know these tests are not all they're cracked u ...

Although there is plenty of research and theories as to what causes prostate cancer, it's still not clear if there is one definitive link. It's likely that it has to do with how our hormones change as we get older which is why optimizing them now may prevent a diagnosis down the line. Here, read on for 8 things you c ...

In my previous posts, I talked about what really causes breast cancer (read it here (#)) and why a healthy diet is one of the best ways to prevent it (read it here (#)). If you're already making changes, you're taking a huge step in the right direction to finally take control of your health. Yet diet isn't the only t ...

Prostate cancer is one of the topics I devote a lot of time to when I see my patients, and it's something you should always be thinking about, too. Other than skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the U.S. Approximately 1 in 6 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime. The Na ...

The next time you are lamenting your spare tire or that stubborn bulge around your middle think about this ... it is not just what you are eating, it is also about what was eaten by what you are eating! Huh, you say? Well, let me explain. "Persistent organic pollutants," or POPs, are synthetic organic compounds that  ...

The prostate is a small gland about the size of a walnut that’s part of your reproductive tract. It surrounds both the bladder and the urethra and helps make semen, which carries sperm from the testicles when you ejaculate. Although making babies may not be on your mind, as you get older, it's important to keep you ...

The Institute for Functional Medicine hosts annual conferences, and this year the conference was in Austin, TX, and the topic was genomics. Each attendee came away from the conference with new knowledge to present to patients. The transcript for Dr. Burke's video blog is below. I'm here at the Institute for Functional Me ...

25 million men between ages 40 and 55 have symptoms of what's known as andropause, or "male menopause." It's that slight decline of testosterone that I wrote about in another post, and it's linked to everything from low libido and weak erections to high cholesterol, typem2 diabetes, and heart disease. Diagnosing low test ...